Cyclozyga mirabilis Knight 1930 (snail)

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1930. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: the Pseudozygopleurinae. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 4(1):1-88

Belongs to Cyclozyga according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hoare and Sturgeon 1978, Knight 1930, Kues and Batten 2001 and Nützel 1998

Sister taxa: Cyclozyga attenuata, Cyclozyga carinata, Cyclozyga micra, Cyclozyga neotenica, Cyclozyga sinusigera

Type specimen: YPM 13005, a shell. Its type locality is SL-1. Headwaters of Feefee Creek, north of Olive St. & west of Lindberg Blvd., 1.5 km northwest of Stratmann (Olivette), which is in a Moscovian offshore shale in the Appanoose Formation of Missouri.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (3: Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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